The Beast of Manchester – Trevor Hardy

In the 1970s, a serial killer, dubbed the Beast of Manchester, held the city in a state of terror as police announced a sex crazed killer was on the loose. 

Trevor Hardy’s taste for trouble and violence had been intensifying for years and finally, in 1974, he escalated to murder. But even after taking the lives of 3 innocent teenage girls, many have labelled him as Britain’s Forgotten Serial Killer. 

Trevor Hardy

Trevor Hardy

Trevor Hardy being arrested

Trevor Hardy being arrested

Hardy’s first victim, 15 year old Janet Lesley Stewart

Lesley Stewart’s mother, Lynne, in her daughters room

Hardy’s second victim, 18 year old Wanda Skala

Wanda Skala’s parents, Czeslaw and Norma

Police remove Wanda Skala’s body from construction site

Hardy’s third victim, 17 year old Sharon Mosoph

Hardy’s third victim, 17 year old Sharon Mosoph

Hardy’s third victim, 17 year old Sharon Mosoph

Sharon Mosoph’s father, Ralph, and stepmother, Jackie

Sharon Mosoph’s coffin at her funeral

Rochdale canal where Sharon’s body was found

Sources:

Britain’s Most Evil Killers season 3 , episode 6 – Trevor Hardy

When Life Means Life – Trevor Hardy

Cause of Death: Memoirs of a Home Office Pathologist By Geoffrey Garrett, Andrew Nott

Murder and Mayhem: Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain By David Nash, Anne-Marie Kilday

Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder: A Student Textbook By David Wilson, Elizabeth Yardley, Adam Lynes

Life Means Life: Jailed Forever: True Stories of Britain’s Most Evil Killers By Nick Appleyard

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